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Date Posted: 06:39:15 09/11/09 Fri
Author: Carla
Subject: Sorry to be late with this ladies, I had my 'real life' book club last night and didn't get home until late.

Chapter 85: Here in the Dark

Pamela is not sleeping at night, listening for Casey to come home. She's cleaned Lawrence's room and then shut the door, unable to go back in again. She also has medical confirmation of her pregnancy.

Just after she's climbs into bed, Pamela hears a noise outside and gets up to see a man walking in the yard -- even though she can only see an outline she knows it's Casey. He comes in a moment later and asks to stay the night. She says yes. When she asks him why, he says Pat told him she'd not been sleeping well and so he's come to lie with her so she can rest. He doesn't want to talk, just pulls her close. She half-wakes in the night to his murmur and a gentle touch. In the morning, he's gone.

Was it cruel of Casey to come for the one night and then leave? Would it be worse to have him back for the one night and then gone, or to have not had even that little bit of him?

Chapter 86: The Tenth Commandment

Casey wakes to the feeling of something crawling over his face and then tweaking his ear. He opens his eyes to find Jamie sitting at his bedside. Jamie is none too pleased with Casey's behaviour -- the drinking and staying away from Pamela -- and shows his feeling by punching him in the face. Jamie lays down a few facts -- either Casey returns to Pamela by the end of October, or he, Jamie, will move her into his home and take her to his bed. In the course of the conversation, we find out just how ruthless Jamie has been to protect and avenge Pamela in the past. We also find out just how badly Casey is doubting himself at present and that he blames himself for Pamela's affair with Love and Lawrence's death. With the admitting of these feelings come tears, and Jamie holds Casey while he crys out his grief, pain and anger.

Two days later, Matty comes to visit him and tells him that he'd lost his own marriage through his devotion to the cause and that to throw away such a love is a terrible thing.

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